Rookie J.P. France continued his stellar pitching as of late and Yordan Alvarez delivered a timely three-run home run as the host Houston Astros topped the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 on Monday.
The Astros closed to within a half-game of the idle Texas Rangers atop the American League West by rallying from an early two-run deficit. France was instrumental in the comeback, recording his fifth consecutive winning decision by holding firm after Cleveland scratched across a pair of runs in the top of the second inning.
But France left Naylor stranded at third by getting Steven Kwan to ground out, the first of eight consecutive batters he retired. France worked around a pair of one-out baserunners in the fifth, induced Josh Bell to ground into a double play in the sixth and received a hand defensively from Alvarez to cap the seventh when Alvarez erased Kwan at second as he tried to stretch a single into a double.
Veteran right-hander Noah Syndergaard made his first start for the Guardians since his acquisition from the Los Angeles Dodgers last week. He carried a shutout into the sixth inning despite failing to notch a strikeout and recording some loud outs, but his outing ended prematurely when he was struck in the lower right leg by a Jeremy Pena comebacker in the sixth.
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